Workshops

Developing Culturally Competent Work Environments
This workshop explores the importance of achieving true cultural diversity in a school or corporation. Participants will probe deep into their own cultural biases and use them as a springboard to emerge from their cocoon (if they're in one) and engage in dialogue. By acknowledging their truths as it relates to experiences of racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and more, participants will feel empowered to carry the dialogue back to their colleagues and beyond!

Alternative Forms to Media in The Misinformation Age
This workshop will explore methods by which students in America and abroad can learn to diversify their information sources in order to achieve a true and balanced education. Issues such as negative representations of Africa, the Middle East, as well as people of diverse cultures and experiences will be analyzed. Students will be encouraged to share their own experiences. The workshop will also look at new forms of alternative media being created by modern-day activists, such as the spoken word as a tool for social change. Students will also be encouraged to create their own alternatives to media where none exist.

Student Empowerment Workshop
The goal of this workshop is to have students build their cultural self-confidence and respect for other cultural, religious, and racial groups by using the spoken word and positive hip-hop to get at the root causes of the misconceptions that exist across different groups. Students emerge from these workshops empowered to not only to make change in their own lives, but in their community and the world as a whole.

Corporate Motivation
Let Omékongo grow your business! Omékongo's corporate presentations are focused on motivating companies and its employees to go from good to great by seizing the opportunities that the industry provides. Participants leave this workshop feeling as if they will run through a wall on their unstoppable path to their goals!

Elevating the Black Male
Long term data consistently indicates that young black males are under-represented in rigorous instruction, gifted and talented programs, honors/A.P. courses and I.B. programs and over-represented in special education and alternative education programs. In addition, young black males are overrepresented in discipline referrals and suspension/expulsion rates. This session will examine the societal perceptions of young black males that perpetuate racial disparities in education. Participants will build their cultural competence to develop a learning environment that fosters academic success for young black males.

Empowerment Through the Arts Tour
Omékongo coordinates international artist exchanges where he can either take your students abroad for cultural empowerment programs or organize multilingual international artists to come to your country and empower your group! Please see the video below which showcases the Empowerment Tour of 2006 to Johannesburg, South Africa!